Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lew, Unlikely - as the second round will be pretty transparent auctioning of spectrum, it will offer much less scope for serious hanky-panky. Someone in the USA would do well to start a similar process against Wall Street, who are no different to our crony capitalists... Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if I understand the issue or its resolution entirely, but > it sounds like there'll be a second go-round. Isn't there a good > chance cronyism and behind the scenes maneuvering will redetermine the > 'new' outcome? > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com> > wrote: > > As an overall sort of reaction to this thread, here is an example, from > > yesterday, on what a combination of committed citizens, a legally > enshrined > > Right to Information process and Public Interest Litigation, together > with > > an independent Higher Judiciary can achieve against the corrupt political > > elite, even in India: > > > > http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2853159.ece > > > > The reactions from multinationals and their shills is astonishing - to > they > > effect they actually PREFER crony capitalism to the rule of law. I never > > expected them to react publicly to this effect. (-: > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:26 AM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> they are. > >> on the federal level. > >> > >> locally, cambridge hospital made sure one of their own became the > director > >> of massachusetts medicaid (which is called masshealth). > >> it really is no different from goldman sachs sending their people to run > >> the treasury dept. . > >> > >> dr julian harris went straight from residency training (!!) at cambridge > >> hospital and the brigham to becoming director of masshealth. > >> > >> this is what the exercise of power looks like. > >> > >> > >> > http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-02/news/29613664_1_health-care-primary-care-harris > >> > >> http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/06/medicaid-director-julian-harris/ > >> > >> julian also worked heroically for "doctors for obama" and it's > >> post-election reincarnation "doctors for america". > >> > >> if you google "julian harris and obama" the first link is a paper on > >> candidate obama's health plan that he co-authored with jay bhatt who > also > >> is at cambridge hospital and is one of don berwick's proteg?s. they all > are > >> also members of PNHP, physicians for a national healthplan. dr rachel > >> nardin, who spied on me daily for a whole year to find some dirt, is the > >> president of the massachusetts chapter of PNHP. > >> > >> and the first thing julian did as director was tell me i had been > randomly > >> chosen for an audit. > >> i had been waiting for him to do exactly that :-)) > >> so when i opened the letter i burst out laughing and the clinic > secretary > >> said, 'you know, that's not what most doctors do when they hear they've > >> been selected for an insurance audit'. > >> i assured her it wasn't a real audit anyway, just corrupt intimidation. > >> > >> the list of 8 patients sent over interestingly was the same 8 patients > >> chosen by cambridge hospital back in november 2010 for their 29-minute > >> executive committee meeting. > >> what an amazing coincidence :-) > >> > >> what is even funnier is that i have not billed for seeing any patients > for > >> a whole year. > >> and since masshealth have not paid me a cent in all of 2011 they know it > >> too. > >> > >> naturally i sent back a robust letter laying the past one year out and > >> asking him to get the records from cambridge hospital just like he got > the > >> list from them! > >> i am not afraid of him or his audit. > >> > >> now that i have roped in the inspector general in washington > >> along with three senators and the governor himself, > >> i hear masshealth are having a rethink..... > >> :-)) > >> welcome to real fraud. > >> bharani > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >